Mahmoud is a veteran journalist, formerly with BBC World News. He joined to Egyptian branch of Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr, in 2011. Mahmoud joined the publication to be able to report on his homeland. He says in the last several weeks, the network has become politically biased, “which undermines everything we’re taught as reporters and broadcasters, and is not in line with what I believe to be right.”

Mahmoud says that the biased reporting has increased tensions in Egypt.

“The coverage over the last few weeks was the tipping point – especially the airing of extreme speeches over the last few days, which have added to the crisis Egypt is seeing right now,” Mahmoud said.

An official with the station told Agence France-Presse, AFP, that the employees who resigned “had not adapted to the editorial line of Al-Jazeera, which refuses to bow to pressure and which continues its coverage with professionalism, regardless of who is in power.”

Al Jazeera has long been admired for its accurate and un-biased reporting. If 22 employees have resigned over this particular issue, can Al Jazeera continue to be trusted?

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